microwave

1. 1.

   cook or heat in a microwave oven

   “You can microwave the leftovers”

   Synonymsmicro-cookzapnuke

   Broadercook

   cooking

Other forms of microwave

plural

microwaves·

past tense

microwaved·

present participle

microwaving·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about microwave

What does microwave mean?

microwave means "a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in microwave?

microwave has 3 syllables: mi-cro-wave. The stress falls on "mi". In IPA it is /ˈmaɪkɹəˌweɪv/.

What is another word for microwave?

Close synonyms include microwave oven, micro-cook, zap, nuke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is microwave a common word?

microwave is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with microwave?

3 words rhyme with microwave. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.